Ok, so it kind of looks like someone sat on it. But you have to admit: the mental image of Vader swatting at Tinkerbell with his light saber is pretty darn epic.

Anyway, Sarah recently celebrated her sixth birthday, and I think you'll agree it was her best Vader mash-up cake yet:

Darth Vader, riding a My Little Pony over a rainbow.

Oh, and the Pony has a Death Star on her butt.

Frankly, just the description is made of win.

All of these cakes were made by their local Dairy Queen, and this latest masterpiece was hand-piped by "a young guy who can't have been over 19 years old," and who was apparently quite worried that he didn't get all the details quite right.

Proving there may be hope for the nation's bakeries, after all.

Many thanks again to Jessica H., and also a belated "Happy Birthday" and "May the Force be with you," to my new favorite geek girl, Sarah, who I hear was super excited to see her first two cakes on the blog. Lookin' forward to seeing what you dream up for next year, Sarah! (And may I suggest...Rainbow Brite?)

I have been sweet talked (pun intended) to try to duplicate this for my own 5-year-old's birthday this coming Tuesday. She asked if I could have Darth Maul riding behind Vader, but I told her that was a little beyond my capabilities. Hopefully the Force will be with me on Monday night as I attempt to pipe this from a copy off my printer.

As much as I LOVE the My Little Pony cake, I am compelled to comment on her 4th b'day cake...

Extra points for the lightsaber pointing at Cinderella! Sleeping Beauty would be in her blue dress if it wasn't for her! Each Disney princess needs their own color and Aurora got stuck with pink despite the fact she spends most of the movie (and all key scenes!) in the blue dress. That hussy Cinderella stole her color... (Yes, I have had this conversation before and yes, my friends have suggested I seek help...)

Long time reader but first time commenter here. This cakes are flippin' awesome! I agree that next year needs to be either Smurfs or Carebears. Isn't there a new Smurfs movie coming out sometime before then? The timing would be perfect.

Current DQ manager here - and i would just like to say, I knew the cakes were DQ before I saw that at the bottom of the post ;) the melty border on the "sat on" cake is a dead give away. So hard to do a lot of piping on a melt-able canvas. Very cool post. And I'm glad to see DQ cakes are getting your national approval :) although, I must say... we aren't bakeries... so your hope in bakeries, may still be false.

We recently had a My Little Pony cake disaster (if you can call April recent). We asked for the pony to be hand piped, regardless of what it ended up looking like, because we love Cake Wrecks. But the bakery decided to put on that icky photo paper with the reference pic! We were so upset, we brought the cake home, scraped off the paper and piped on the pony ourselves. She ended up hideous. I deeply wish we'd had this 19 year old baker for our cake! I hope he knows he did a fantastic job!

and my daughter literally went SQUEEEEEEEEEEE MOMMA LOOK THERE'S MY CAKES!! and levitated off the floor. This made her whole day, seeing her cakes all in one place :) Thank you, thank you, everyone, for reassuring us that we are not the only Vader-loving pony princess geeks in the world! LOL!! keep on wreckin', y'all!

My birthday is coming up and for the past few years my eldest has been making my cakes. This year I'm going to have to disappoint her and have DQ do a mash-up of Vader, He-Man, Thundercats and Thundarr the Barbarian, with a couple of Smurf figurines. Oh 80's cakes how beautiful you are!

1) re: Princess cake: My 4 yr old SON ran up and said make me that cake, Mommy! He's ok. We have a very addicted 16 yr old Princesss so he sees them all the time. 2) re: next year: Strawberry Shortcake...or, I like the Barbie suggestion

Little Pony Vader is my favorite cake I have ever seen on your blog. EVER.

I saw a recipe once for a 'rainbow' cake where the cake batter is dyed 6 different colors and is slowly poured into the pan in 'layers', so when you cut into the cake you see once piece dyed 6 different colors. The Little Pony Vader cake is PERFECT for that! I can't wait until my birthday! 8D

As a former DQ employee of 8 years, I gotta say that some of our cake decorators are awesome. I knew immediately that these were DQ cakes. They are so hard to decorate because you have to be very fast or they will melt. The girl who decorates them at my old store is amazing. She gets compliments all the time on her artwork, which turns out looking quite like the pictures here. If I didn't know better, I would have sworn that she drew these. Yummy gel icing!

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